Our four year undergraduate degrees follow a broad and exciting curriculum, including a comprehensive range of courses and laboratories in physics and astrophysics.

Our research areas are astronomy and astrophysics, physics of the upper atmosphere, fluid dynamics, and atomic and molecular collision physics.

We are an active department with friendly staff in Ireland's university town Maynooth, and provide an informal and welcoming atmosphere to our students.

On 19th March 2013 students from 3rd and 4th year will visit ESA/ESTEC at Noordwijk in the Netherlands.  ESA constructs many satellites and space probes including Herschel and Planck.  Students will be able to tour the facilities and see what it's like to be at the forefront of space technology. 

A trip to Jodrell Bank will also be scheduled for 1st and 2nd years in the next few months.

We participate in many outreach activities, including Science Week and Open Days. Our Schools Programme provides Leaving Cert. practicals for many schools in Ireland.

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Lecture notes and course guidelines can be found on Moodle.